Nengudi first made her name as a leader of the Black American avant-garde in the
1970s. The career retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art spans a
half-century, from 1970 to 2020.
When social epidemiologist Sharon D. Jones-Eversley speaks about false
information circulated through media, she remembers a parable that her mother
taught her. In the story, a man lies about anoth…
With no vendors, no athletes’ village and empty grandstands, the event that
typically draws 15,000 to 20,000 spectators was so quiet geese weren’t scared
off and rowers could be heard counting.
Eminent scholar Deborah Willis, who grew up in North Philadelphia, says Black
soldiers’ Civil War photos were sending a message: “That there was and will be a
Black future.”
Her food and environmental collective, Land Based Jawns, hopes to plant seeds
for community growers and spawn gardens on residential blocks in the city.
Zalika U. Ibaorimi, a West Oak Lane native and doctoral candidate at the
University of Texas at Austin, has developed her theory citing Black cultural
theorists.
Survey questions that Phillips uses in her research appear among essays, fine
art, interviews, social media posts, memes, lyrics, and other works by Black
creatives in the acclaimed 544-page book.